Painting on wood

The painting on wood is a technique of old Peinture. One uses wood as support since the ancient Egypt.

Historical reference marks

One paints on wood from Egypt Antique. The Egyptians made use of paintings with natural pigments to decorate their tombs. Decorative painting on wood then moved gradually towards Europe, from the South towards North, where the popular classes adapted this technique to decorate their furniture, primarily in fir tree, starting from pastoral scenes, of local landscapes, folk characters or of graphics inspired of local art like the Alsatian Polychrome.

the Mona Lisa of Léonard de Vinci is an oil on wood panel of Peuplier.

The founding father of painting on modern wood, become gradually decorative painting, is Peter Ompir which lived with the the United States in Cape Code, close to Boston. Peter Ompir gave rise to a particular current, art folk, by painting picturesque reasons on usual objects like coffee machines, milk pots, small plates out of metal or all that fell to him under the hand.

Decorative painting

Decorative painting on wood is an activity of creative leisures. Strongly developed since more than one about thirty years in the United States, it is currently in full rise with the Quebec, the Japan and in Australia. Painting on wood, sometimes also named painting on metal, is at the stage of starting in Europe and more particularly in France.

From the technical point of view, it is a question of applying acrylic Peinture to small wood surfaces as of limp with the, of the small plates or even of the boxes of arrangement. These surfaces can be larger when the technique applies to pieces of furniture like the convenient ones or cupboards.

Decorative painting is animated in the United States within an association founded in 1972, Society off Decorative Painters (SDP) which counts nearly 40.000 members and 4.000 teachers all over the world.

In Europe, decorative painting has its association since September 2006 with the creation of the European Federation of decorative painting, European Society off Decorative Painters (ESDP).

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